2023 SMA Award winners
New Millennium Book Award
Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America
Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, and David Herzberg
Eileen Basker Memorial Prize
Weighing the Future: Race Science and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era
Natali Valdez
Eileen Basker Memorial Prize honorable mention
Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles
Claire Wendland
The Leah M. Ashe Prize for the Anthropology of Medically–Induced Harm
Hooyer, Katinka (2022), “The trauma pitch: how stigma emerges for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking disability compensation”, PLoS One 17(8): e0267424
The Steven Polgar Professional Paper Competition
Sadruddin, Aalyia Feroz Ali (2022), “Death in an Ordinary Time: Reflections from Rwanda”, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 36(2), 198-216.
Hazel Weidman Award for Exemplary Service
Professor Marcia Inhorn
SMA Dissertation Award
Practicing Gender: The Meanings and Uses of Gender Affirming Care for Youth in the United States
Paula Martin
Rivers Paper Prize
“Gifted Care: Reconfiguring HIV/AIDS Caregiving in the Post-Treatment Era”
Sumin Yoon
Carole H. Browner Graduate Student Mentorship Award
Professor Jennifer Hirsch
Carole H. Browner Undergraduate Student Mentorship Award
Associate Professor Bharat Jayram Venkat
Special Interest Group (SIG) Awards & Prizes
Alcohol Drugs and Tobacco
Graduate Student Paper Prize: Alex Rewegan
Graduate Student Travel Award: Sugandh Gupta
Anthropology and Mental Health
AMHIG Graduate Student Paper Award: Brittany Franck
Anthropological Responses in Health Emergencies
ARHE Policy Brief Professional Award: Dr. Magdalena Stawkowski
ARHE Policy Brief Student Award: Taylor J. Arnold
Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR)
Edited Collection Prize: Birth in Eight Cultures, Robbie Davis-Floyd & Melissa Cheyney (eds)
Monograph Prize: Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles, Claire Wendland
Monograph Prize honorable mentions: Becoming Gods: Medical Training in Mexican Hospitals, Vania Smith-Oka, Lawful Sins: Abortion Rights and Reproductive Governance in Mexico, Elyse Ona Singer & Cancer and the Kali Yuga: Gender, Inequality, and Health in South India, Cecilia Coale Van Hollen
Paper Prize: Alyssa Basmajian
Disability Research Interest Group (DRIG)
Essay Prize: Rachel Parks
Dying and Bereavement
Emerging Scholar Award: Katrina Fuller
Research on US Health and Healthcare (RUSH)
Student Paper Prize: Alyssa Basmajian
Student Paper Prize honorable mention: Yuki X. Chen
Critical Anthropology of Global Health (CAGH) Rudolf Virchow Awards
Professional category: Mayssa Rekhis & Jennifer Syvertsen
Graduate category: Brianna Simmons
Undergraduate category: Sarah Brown
Contingent Faculty Travel Award
“Social sufferings across the Nepal-India border; Fortification and marginality in the mist of COVID-19”
Dr. Sachin Ghimire
“Transnational Care Collectives: Digital technologies in remote elder care”
Dr. Tanja Ahlin
Undergraduate Student Travel Award
Julia Kwak (Emory University)
Cody Nelson (Emory University)
Graduate Student Travel Award
Faith Cole (University of California Los Angeles)
Jorge Molinas Aguilar (University of Don Bosco, El Salvador)
Taylor Silverman (University of California, Irvine)
Mallika Kodati (University of North Texas)
Aaron Su (Princeton University)